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I’ve lost count of the number of excellent hardy geraniums that Alan Bremner has developed at this garden up in the Orkney Islands, but you’ll find that many of the best and many of your favourites originate there. Amongst those he raised are ‘Anne Thomson’, ‘Dilys’, ‘Joy’, ‘Orkney Cherry’, ‘Patricia...
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There’s no shortage of hardy geraniums, cranesbills, in nurseries – in fact there are thousands. So a new one really has got to be good to be worth choosing over the best of those already available. And the strangely named ‘Blushing Turtle’ looks as if it might be up to the task. Making a broadly mounded...
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Geraniums, or pelargoniums as we should call them, come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Creating varieties that are more bushy and more prolific, or which trail more effectively, and in new colours and colour combinations, seems to have been a high priority in recent years. But this variety climbs...
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With new hardy geraniums appearing constantly - twenty newcomers in the 2011 RHS Plant Finder alone to add to the many many hundreds already available – it’s understandable when gardeners are cautious about yet another new one. But when one of the world’s top breeders of new hardy geraniums introduces...
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The 2011/2012 RHS Plant Finder is now out and I’ve been looking at this year’s new entries which stocked by the most nurseries. These are the newcomers most widely available at different nurseries across the country. Top of the list is Actaea ‘Misty Blue’, available from more RHS Plant Finder nurseries...
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This lovely new hardy geranium has delightful flowers - and an interesting history. Geranium phaeum ‘Lavender Pinwheel’ has the usual dark green mound of spring foliage, with maroon-purple blotches, but it’s the flowers which are special. Each flower is pale lavender, with violet veins radiating from...
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Chelsea exhibits from The Hardy Plant Society are always fascinating with so many unusual plants grown by members of the Society brought together on one intriguing exhibit. Two new plants on their exhibit (Grand Pavilion, E12) stand out this year. Geranium phaeum ‘Mottisfont Rose' is a new form of...
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